re: Houston drivers are out of control

Thirty years ago, the bane of Houston Driving was a combination of road construction and little old very short drivers of a certain ethnicity.

The road construction slowed traffic to safer to survive a crash speeds.

The old short drivers (identified because you could only see the tops of their heads) were slow drivers. They've died of old age. Their replacements are younger, taller and faster and can see holes in the traffic to speed up and aim their cars at.